My Masters of Science thesis presents a new alternative for building a piggery that fulfils all the contemporary demands. The goal of this work is an economical, rapidly built, timberframed, combined piggery for 1000 pigs and 192 sows. Main designing factor is its suitability to the landscape and surroundings. Even though the designing premise is difficult enough, the challenge is increased even more by the need for modifiability of agricultural production building and the necessity of taking into account the possibility for future extension. The extension of the piggery from 250 pigs to 1000 must happen in stages.

In my work I examine the change taking place in rural building and the effect of it. Earlier construction has been largely organic and this natural development should continue also in the future, regardless of the availability of prefabricated structural elements, etc. I also examine the images created by transparency and open architecture in order to promote animal welfare. Honest and open architecture is used in ameliorating the image of pig farming today.

Design of the ideal standard piggery gives full attention to the issues regarding the wellbeing of pigs. Organic farming is believed to add to pork‘s value. The main premise is to advance the possibilities for species-specific behaviour. In order to acquire the widest possible insight to the possibilities of pig farming I acquainted myself with the solutions used in other countries with similar climatic zones as Finland. What I found became an integral part of the functionality development in my standardized piggery plan.

As for the localization of the ideal standard piggery I review several possible manners of customizing the piggery according to the landscape and surroundings. The aesthetics of the façades trace back to the piggery’s structure. In other words, it is not something that has been glued on top of it, or in other words, coated, which is usually the case when the focus is in appearance.

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